This hostel seriously has the worst staff we have ever come
acrossed. On the first day upon our arrival at Nice, we enquired about
directions to the hostel via the night bus. The receptionist was impatient and
did not provide any details, asking us to take a taxi despite our repeated
attempts at telling her that we wanted to take a bus up. We ended up with no
choice but to take a taxi up to the hostel.
On the next night I came back to the hostel finding my lock on the locker sawn
apart and my locked pack broken into. My money was stolen from this "safe,
locked up hostel" which didnt even provide each room with its own dorm key.
Hostel staff provided not much explaination, citing that there were no visible
signs of forced entry and it must have been an inside job. Who else but the
hostel staff would have the ease of access and luxury of time to break into and
explore the contents of the many lockers?
The following night, we took a wrong train which landed us up in Marseille and
we phoned the staff to inform them that we could not make it back in time for
the curfew. They told us they could wait for us till 12.30am and we took a taxi
from the train station to avoid being locked out. However we found ourselves
locked out when we reached the hostel despite rushing via a taxi and reaching
before 12.30am. Calls to the reception counter yielded no response.
On our check-out day with a train to catch we asked the staff for directions
for a bus to the train station and they offered no help except that there are
signs at the bus-stop. With difficulty in deciphering the french texts, we
missed the first bus which did not stop outside the hostel during that time and
therefore missed our train timing.
Definitely my worst experience with a hostel in France.
